Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manchurian Candidate; their purpose could be to drive the U.S. to its knees by assassinating public persons-a theory, Capote claimed, that was once expounded by 19th century Theosophist Helena Blavatsky. (Sirhan, Capote noted, asked for a copy of Madame Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine soon after his arrest...
...excerpt from LeRoi Jones' play The Slave, including a rape scene and several "four-letter words," set off a chain of shocked and protective anger from parents which culminated in two court subpoenae for teachers involved with the presentation, the arrest of one high school senior, and a near-hysterical school board meeting with over 1000 tense town citizens attending...
...general, the Los Angeles police appeared to have handled the attempted assassination with a good deal more circumspection than did the Dallas police in November, 1963. They did not parade the assailant before the press; and did not even make public the assassin's location after his arrest...
...brick slammed into the face of a patrolman, 1,000 outraged police charged through the crowd, swinging night sticks and chasing students up the stairs of their dormitories. By the time an uneasy peace was restored, 68 people-including 17 policemen-had been injured, and 177 persons were under arrest...
Specifically, in federal cases the Senators struck down the court's Miranda requirement that arrested suspects be told of their rights to silence and legal counsel. Down, too, went the ruling that such suspects have the right to have a lawyer present at lineups. The Senators also voided the court's holding that confessions may not be used if obtained during an unreasonable delay between arrest and arraignment. Such attacks on the court are not yet assured, however. The bill must now go to a Senate-House conference committee chaired by New York Representative Emanuel Celler, and Celler...